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Eight City Study of Child Political Socialization, 1961-1962 (ICPSR 7297)

Principal Investigator(s):Easton, David; Hess, Robert

Summary:

This study sought to measure children's early receptiveness
to political concepts. A structured questionnaire was administered to
a sample of white urban public school children in grades 2 through 8
from eight American cities: Boston, Massachusetts, Portland, Maine,
Chicago, Illinois, Sioux City, Iowa, Atlanta, Georgia, Jackson,
Mississippi, San Francisco, California, and Tacoma,
Washington. Information was collected on attitudes toward real people
and roles, opinions concerning the origin,... (more info)

This study sought to measure children's early receptiveness
to political concepts. A structured questionnaire was administered to
a sample of white urban public school children in grades 2 through 8
from eight American cities: Boston, Massachusetts, Portland, Maine,
Chicago, Illinois, Sioux City, Iowa, Atlanta, Georgia, Jackson,
Mississippi, San Francisco, California, and Tacoma,
Washington. Information was collected on attitudes toward real people
and roles, opinions concerning the origin, relevance, and supremacy of
laws, and cognizance of current affairs and issues. All grades were
given the same physical questionnaire, but only grades 4 through 8
completed it in its entirety. Grades 2 and 3 stopped after they had
reached their respective limits.

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Study Description

Citation

Easton, David, and Robert Hess. Eight City Study of Child Political Socialization, 1961-1962. ICPSR07297-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1975. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07297.v1

Methodology

Sample:
The continental United States was divided into four
regions: Northeast, Northcentral, South, and West. From each region
two cities were chosen, one with a population greater than 1,000,000
and the other with a population ranging between 100,000 and
500,000. The cities were: Boston, Massachusetts, Portland, Maine,
Chicago, Illinois, Sioux City, Iowa, Atlanta, Georgia, Jackson,
Mississippi, San Francisco, California, and Tacoma, Washington. Within
each city public schools were purposively chosen from "middle-class"
and "working-class" areas. The sample was exclusively white.

Data Source:

self-enumerated questionnaires

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